Proverbs 4:15

Proverbs chapter 4 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

Context

v.14Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.

v.15This passage

v.16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 22:23

    If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

  • Isaiah 33:15

    He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:

  • Exodus 23:7

    Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:22

    abstain from every form of evil.

  • Proverbs 6:5

    Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Proverbs 5:8

    Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;